Why aren’t any government making wealth inequality and property supply focused policies?
Why can’t any government in the world aim to tax ultra rich more whilst making easier for small to medium large businesses to thrive. And policies on property supply rather than property buyers like all sorts of first time buyers programs.
Why are only same old policies keep being peddled when the world is still going to shit?
That doesn’t involve reducing the government size and budget entirely or subscribing to any extreme left or right?
Real wage (i.e. the wage adjusted for the prices you pay) has gone up 4x in the past 25 years, more than any other country. This is staggering considering it's the most populous country on the planet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw8SvK0E5dI
The real (inflation-adjusted) incomes of the poorest half of the Chinese population increased by more than four hundred percent from 1978 to 2015, while real incomes of the poorest half of the US population actually declined during the same time period. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23119/w23119.pdf
By the end of 2020, extreme poverty, defined as living on under a threshold of around $2 per day, had been eliminated in China. According to the World Bank, the Chinese government had spent $700 billion on poverty alleviation since 2014. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/world/asia/china-poverty-xi-jinping.html
None of these things happen in capitalist states, and we can make a direct comparison with India which follows capitalist path of development. In fact, without China there practically would be no poverty reduction happening in the world.
If we take just one country, China, out of the global poverty equation, then even under the $1.90 poverty standard we find that the extreme poverty headcount is the exact same as it was in 1981.
The $1.90/day (2011 PPP) line is not an adequate or in any way satisfactory level of consumption; it is explicitly an extreme measure. Some analysts suggest that around $7.40/day is the minimum necessary to achieve good nutrition and normal life expectancy, while others propose we use the US poverty line, which is $15.
Yet, they lack the simple freedom to acknowledge the existence of a certain date in their country's history. The recognition of which, will result in their arrest and potential disappearance. Freedom is not free if your acknowledgement of the truth is considered "wrong think."
Libs refuse to read anything that isn't young adult fiction and thus are confined to pretending the real world is literally 1984 or literally Voldemort or literally the Hunger Games.
Shit, the brainrot is so advanced we're getting "literally like that marvel movie" more often than not nowadays bc y'all can't even read kid books more.
You can talk about June 4th, 1989 in China. Chinese usually call it the "June 4th incident," which is what the government uses when referencing it in official statements on the subject.
And they can talk about it on its own terms (that is, more truthfully) because they don't have the obligatory ritual of painting the entire picture the CIA gave foreign media before they can talk about the actual facts.